The correlation of irregularities in carotid arterial intima-media thickness with coronary artery disease

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-6

  Ishizu, Tomoko ^a   Ishimitsu, Toshiyuki ^a   Kamiya, Hideki ^a   Seo, Yoshihiro ^a   Moriyama, Naoko ^a   Obara, Kenichi ^a   Watanabe, Shigeyuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Iwao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid untrasonography; Coronary artery disease; Intima media thickness

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0036858754     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003800200035     Document Type: Article

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